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Personal Communication Networks (PCNs) have become an important filed of activity and they are expected to play a fundamental role in next-generation telecommunication systems. In particular, the emerging personal communication services, such as portable computing, paging, personal e-mail, etc. have led to the need of an efficient integration of voice and data traffic in a same PCN by means of a suitable multiple-access scheme. This paper considers stability and optimization issues for the Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA) protocol used for integrating voice and burst data traffic in a PCN. An important result here devised is that the optimized PRMA protocol permits to be achieved good performance even under heavy traffic load conditions.
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Fantacci, R. Stability and Optimization Analysis for the PRMA Protocol for Voice and Burst Data Integration in a Personal Communication Network. Telecommunication Systems 17, 115–133 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016656120231
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